I was reading this topic Improving the Groups page for 1.7 and visiting this forum https://se23.life/ to see “auto-join” in action when I realized that I can see (and click) the “Edit Groups” button (change text, flair, delete/add users etc…) even if I’m not logged in.
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It seems very strange for a user not registered, note that I have not tried to edit anything, I would probably give me an error or permission denied.
Ping to @ChrisBeach for more tests.
Yea I noticed the bug. Will fix once I’m back from the holidays. 
Hi @tgxworld , I’m new to the Discourse codebase but I would like to take a look at this issue & see if I could fix it while you are away. Is that ok ?
Sure go for it
Good spot @Trash. I just tried editing as a non-logged-in user and got a 404 error (and the edit didn’t persist).
Another minor point: when viewing the group list page as a non-logged-in user, groups are shown as “Closed” which is a little bit misleading. I think it would be nicer if the correct actions “Join” / “Request Membership” were shown, and clicking on them popped up the sign-up dialog (as per the behaviour with the like button).
Fixed in
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3c4920d234163815aac844b28eec09ef3e2f05c1
@Trash Thanks for reporting
